로 — ro
로 is ㄹ plus ㅗ, romanized ro and read exactly as written. You can hear it below, recorded by a native Korean speaker.
Frequency: common — it appears at or above the median frequency in the teaching material behind this site. The boundary is the median of the cells that appear at all, which works out at 21 occurrences.
The two letters
ㄹ (rieul)
/ɾ/ before a vowel, [l] in final position
the tapped r of Spanish pero when a vowel follows; an l at the end of a syllable
Words containing 로
- 도로road
- 로마Rome
- 포로prisoner
- 오로라aurora
Nearby in the chart
Questions people ask
- How do you pronounce 로? +
- 로 is romanized ro and read exactly as written.